Many people ask me why I would invest my hard-earned money into an asset that 'seems very volatile'? Why not choose more stable options, such as funds, insurance, or fixed deposits? I always respond with one sentence: I am not investing in Bitcoin; I am buying back my own time.
This sounds like a slogan, but for me, it is an extremely real feeling. From a young age, we are taught: 'Study hard, get into a good university, join a stable company, save money slowly, and finally retire.' The premise of this logic is a stable, predictable fiat currency system: money will not devalue quickly, assets will appreciate steadily, and labor will yield fair returns.
But what is the reality? You work hard, get promoted and earn raises, but housing prices always rise faster than you can keep up; you save money for ten years, yet it cannot keep up with a round of inflation; you work hard on financial management, but no matter how hard you try, it can't compare to those who 'win' effortlessly during a bull market. We think we are 'controlling the future,' but in fact, we are just pawns in the system, passively exchanging our time, youth, attention, and freedom for those seemingly safe but increasingly devalued banknotes.
For me, Bitcoin is the first step to breaking out of this exploitative structure.
When I began to understand Bitcoin—its scarcity, resistance to censorship, and immutability—I realized that it is not just an asset, but also a value anchor, a tool I use to escape the exploitation of time.
Every time I buy Bitcoin, I tell myself: I am not betting on price fluctuations, but rather using today's fiat currency to exchange for time that will no longer be devalued in the future. I am willing to trade the certainty of now for the possibilities of the future. Not because I am greedy, but because I am clear-headed.
Bitcoin has no owner, does not belong to any government, and there is no printing press that can create it out of nothing. It respects the value of time—because it is itself forged by time and energy. It makes me rethink a question: why do we work our whole lives just to preserve our assets from shrinking?
I started dollar-cost averaging into Bitcoin, not because I want to speculate and get rich, but because I don't want to be robbed of more time by the system. I want to achieve 'time freedom' earlier, to liberate my life from the 996 work culture, and to choose the pace of my own life.
Investing in Bitcoin is my way of saying 'no' to this exploitative system.
When others are still asking 'How much did you earn?', I am asking myself: 'How much of my own time have I reclaimed?' This is the true profit and the reason I continue to move forward.
